The being that was to be Bhagavan Munisuvrat purified its soul
during his birth as Surshreshta, the king of Champa city in
Mahavideh. He then reincarnated in the Pranat dimension of gods.

King Sumitra of the Harivamh clan ruled over Rajgriha town.
His wife, queen Padmavati, gave birth to a son, the being that
had descended from the Pranat dimension of gods, on the ninth day
of the dark half of the month of Jyeshta. After the traditional
post birth rituals the name giving ceremony was celebrated. The
king announced that since this being had descended into the womb
of queen Padmavati, she took a variety of good vows and lead a
life as disciplined as an ascetic. As such the new born named
Munisuvrat (vow like ascetics).

In due course Munisuvrat was married and ascended the throne.
After a successful and long reign he became an ascetic on the
eighth day of the dark half of the month of Phalgun. He wandered
as a ordinary ascetic for eleven months and attained omniscience
under a Champa tree. His first discourse was on the subject of
"scriptural and applied philosophy". After a long life
devoted to spread of true religion he went to Sammetshikhar and
got liberated on the ninth day of the dark half of the month of
Jyeshtha.

Bhagavan Munisuvrats period was an important period of
Jain pre-history. His illustrious contemporaries and followers
included stalwarts like the ninth Chakravarti-Mahapadma, the
eighth Prativasudev, Baldev, and Vasudev, Ravan, Rama and
Lakshman respectively. The elder brother of Bahagavan Munisuvrat,
ascetic Vishnu Kumar, also became famous for his pioneering
effort of saving the Jain organization from the oppressions of
mister Namuchi; the Rakshabandhan festival is celebrated in the
memory of that event.